ABSTRACT

Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve greater social and ecological sustainability. It provides practical frameworks and case studies to assist environmental managers in building partnerships that can support learning and action on issues arising from human impacts on the life-support systems of our planet. In this book, social learning frameworks and case studies address the three areas of collaboration, community, government and professional, in some detail. The resulting guidelines and their practical applications provide key source material for undergraduate and postgraduate professional education in the fields of social and environmental sciences, political science, planning, geography and urban studies, and also for professionals in environmental management.

section 1|59 pages

A Social Learning Approach to Environmental Management

chapter 1|19 pages

Social Learning

A New Approach to Environmental Management

chapter 2|19 pages

Traditions of Understanding

Language, Dialogue and Experience

chapter 3|19 pages

Complex Adaptive Systems

Constructing Mental Models

section 2|60 pages

Learning Partnerships with Communities

chapter 4|15 pages

Communities' Self-Determination

Whose Interests Count?

chapter 5|13 pages

Partnerships in Civil Society

Linking Bridging and Bonding Social Capital

chapter 7|17 pages

Collaborative Learning

Bridging Scales and Interests

section 3|67 pages

Learning Partnerships With Government

chapter 8|23 pages

Linking Community and Government

Islands and Beaches

chapter 9|24 pages

Changing Governments

Councils Embracing the Precautionary Principle

chapter 10|18 pages

Felt Knowing

A Foundation for Local Government Practice

section 4|55 pages

Personal and Professional Learning

chapter 11|16 pages

The Ethics of Social Engagement

Learning to Live and Living to Learn

chapter 12|17 pages

Science Communication for Scientists

Reshaping a Culture

chapter 13|20 pages

The Reflective Practitioner

Practising What We Preach

section 5|21 pages

Learning for the Future